Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

There has been a great interest in understanding the interactions between light and noble
metal nanoparticles ever since Michael Faraday's study of the ruby-red color of colloidal …

Spatial nonlocality in the optical response of noble metals is shown to produce significant
blue shift and near-field quenching of plasmons in nanoparticle dimers, nanoshells, and thin …

Building metal materials with well-defined components and the monomer-genetic property is
one of the foremost challenges in chemistry and materials science. In recent years, metal …

A systematic search for global and energetically low-lying minimum structures of neutral
gold clusters Aun (n= 2–20) is performed within a seeded genetic algorithm technique using …

Localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) have attracted much recent attention for
their potential in promoting chemical reactions with light. However, the mechanism of LSPR …

Subgroup discovery (SGD) is presented here as a data-mining approach to help find
interpretable local patterns, correlations, and descriptors of a target property in materials …

A combined theoretical and experimental approach is presented that uses a comprehensive
mean‐field microkinetic model, reaction kinetics experiments, and scanning transmission …

Plasmonic metal nanoparticles (PMNPs) are capable of localized surface plasmon
resonance (LSPR) and have become an important component in many experimental …

The geometrical structures, relative stabilities, and electronic properties of small bare gold
clusters Auλn and bimetallic complexes of bare metal clusters with one copper atom Aun …